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This is pretty disturbing. Only the most cursory (or the most Republican) look at the 1980s would yield such a cut-and-dried picture. Sure, the autocratic regime was evil. But Reagan's phrase was not intended as support for democracy in Eastern Europe, as Kerrey says and as Reagan would have us believe now. There wasn't a chance for democracy then. The Soviets weren't scared into negotiation by Reagan--in fact, his hard line was a setback for detente. Only the Soviet economic implosion, a process decades in the making, would eventually chop the Soviet Union...
Allison B. Clark '92 thinks so. She wrote a letter condemning us as being, essentially, pigs. "The opinions expressed by these editors in discussing the credibility of Anita Hill's testimony force me to repeat the phrase that I have heard exasperated women say to men again and again this weekend: You just don't get it," Clark writes...
...politician who spews platitudes at ethnic voters. The guy who patronizes women on the issue of sexual harassment. The big-city police chief who downplays his department's gang beating of an errant motorist. What don't these folks do? They don't "get it." Suddenly the phrase is everywhere, a shorthand K.O. punch that vaporizes opponents by skewering their lack of social intelligence. And for public figures it can be fatal. If you just don't get it, you're hopelessly out of touch...
...other part of the law refers to a "hostile working environment," and it is here that the debates get most heated. The phrase covers any unwelcome sexual behavior that makes it hard for a worker to do her job or that creates a hostile or offensive environment. Charles Looney, regional director of the EEOC New England office in Boston, says the courts are more concerned with the woman's reaction than the man's intent. "If I run a stop sign, I have broken the law even if I did not intend to," he says. "People can create hostile environments...
...opinions expressed by these editors in discussing the credibility of Hill's testimony force me to repeat the phrase that I've heard exasperated women say to men again and again this weekend: You just...